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Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Edelman < Herschel

   
Patriots receiver Julian Edelman retired yesterday after a 12 year NFL career. Some wondered if he was worthy of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Others quickly compared Edelman to another Super Bowl MVP: Hines Ward. Ward’s numbers dwarfed Edelman’s. Let’s compare both to Herschel Walker’s NFL stats:

YR.games.rec..yards..avg.TD.long.tot TD.combined yards

.11  137  0630 06822 11.0 36  77   40  09869 JE

.14  217  1000 12083 12.1 85  85   85  12723 Ward

.13  187  0512 04859 09.5 21  93   84  18168 Walker NFL

Ozuna wore the fancy socks, and hit his first home run of the season.

Acuna hit two more home runs tonight.

BERNARD GILKEY  [B-R Bio] hit more doubles in a single season for the Mets than any other player. Hit 44 2B in 1996, passing Howard Johnson’s 41 in 1989. [the single-season doubles record for the American Association’s NY Metropolitans of the mid 1880s was the 32 hit by Dave Orr in 1884]. In 1996 Gilkey landed in their all-time single-season Top Tens in RBI, Total Bases, Extra-Base Hits, OPS, as well as leading the team in WAR. For 4th-place NYM he had 117 RBI, 321 TB, 73 XBH with a Slg% of .562 & an OPS of .955.  His 8.1 WAR was, by almost twice, the highest of any season of his 12-year career. After Red Schoendienst in 1945, he was the next Cardinals rookie to start in left field on Opening Day, on OD 1991.

Gary Player's son was apparently 'banned' from the Masters after his opening ceremony stunt.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sports.yahoo.com_gary-2Dplayers-2Dson-2Dbanned-2Dfrom-2Dmasters-2Dafter-2Dopening-2Dceremony-2Dstunt-2D214654331.html&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=1mjPHM_didgOly135Wzfh30z4yP8zXD3R6-5QFgjGQY&s=x8nUS7-xLOaDLxiPZac5CBdZmabN4iozRj5VDi_skYw&e=

A good article on UGA RB Kendall Milton.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.dawgnation.com_football_team-2Dnews_georgia-2Drb-2Dkendall-2Dmilton-2Dready-2Dto&d=DwIFAg&c=UXihhqr7vvdA-hrKyTiC1Q&r=wMWwaEbn9nr4zXI4p6CDP7FGwn1DrBd77MJElrWsP6U&m=dYdXGxdC4Q6k9i1OPQlAkUTwYfFVnNDgzHIHJysDlv0&s=kYPqDvMvBH7C7tA6mDkZay4QWlfO-8qJAvR9fuJrr1M&e=

Denison: the Supreme Court ruled last Friday that California cannot bar meetings of more than three families from worshipping in a private home. According to the Wall Street Journal, "the decision is the fifth time the Court has overruled the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on pandemic orders against worship, as an exasperated majority points out." The Journal editorial adds: "The willfulness of the lower courts in defying the High Court underscores how much religious liberty needs protecting against the militant secular values that now dominate American public life." Many secularists think religious liberty is about the right to be wrong, an appeal to an outdated constitutional mandate that protected what educated people now know to be superstition at best and dangerous prejudice at worse. As New York Times columnist Ross Douthat notes, many cultural elites are "committed to a moral vision that regards emancipated, self-directed choice as essential to human freedom.

Denison: a Gallup poll reported socialism is as popular as capitalism among young adults in the US. Baby boomers  prefer capitalism to socialism by 68% to 32%. That's because we remember the decadence and corruption of the Soviet Union and other socialist states. Those who have lived in socialism are among its most ardent critics. Having been to Cuba ten times, I can testify that socialism simply does not work. A system that excludes biblical truth and morality is a house built on sand (Matthew 7:26–27). Solomon issued a warning that is especially relevant to our culture today: "Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered" (Proverbs 28:26).

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